Re: either kernel or fdisk does not understand Win95 extended partitions.

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Sun, 21 Feb 1999 02:04:08 +0100 (MET)

> Add to your collection the following example: guy installed RH on
> /dev/hda and got the type of /dev/hdb1 changed from 0xa5 to 0xb5.

Hmm. Usually this is user error.
Certain bootloaders such as System Commander XOR the partition type
with 0x10 in order to hide the partition. (OS/2 BM also uses this
technique, and changes 1,4,6,7 into 11,14,16,17 (hex).)

So, I tend to believe that people reporting a change from
0xa5 to 0xb5 use e.g., System Commander, and that there is
not necessarily a connection with the installation of RedHat.

(Or maybe RedHat changed the active partition without undoing
the XOR.)

Andries

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